Healing Basketball

  Chapter 1042 Chapter 1042. Getting better (seeking a monthly ticket)

   On the evening of December 31, 2008, the Cavaliers staged a big deal of the year.

They first used Larry Hughes, Drew Gooden, the 2009 first-round pick, and Eric Snow's expiring contract for a three-way big deal, in exchange for the Jazz's Szczerbiak , Ben Wallace of the Pistons.

   Then use the Big Z and the Wizards for Antawn Jamison.

  The five-member team of Mo Buchuan, Szczerbiak, James, Jamison, and Ben Wallace was born!

  Entering the middle of the season, apart from the All-Star voting, fans' enthusiasm for watching games and discussions are declining.

  The Cavaliers ignited public opinion!

  Qing'er and Anne Hathaway were both chattering about the Cavaliers lineup.

   When discussing, treat Szczerbiak, Jamison, and Ben Wallace as their peak period.

It feels like saying that the Cavaliers got a pitcher who averaged 20+ per game, a super panacea who averaged 25 points per game, and a super defensive player who was the best defensive player in 4 years and 3 times, and it was directly added kind of.

  The same goes for TV commentators, online pundits and fans.

  Faced with the inquiry from the two, Liu Xiu replied with a false statement: "Their boss is really willing to spend money."

  Anne-Hathaway and Qing'er were taken aback for a moment, her husband (brother)'s focus is always different from others!

Seeing that the two did not respond, Liu Xiu continued: "The Cavaliers sent out a contract of almost 36 million yuan, but the salary in exchange reached 43 million yuan. They took advantage of the rules of mid-term transactions - the salary of the players sent out exceeded 30% of the salary cap. At that time, the total salary of the returned players can be increased by up to 25% compared with the sent players.

This rule was originally intended for those teams that could not keep their stars in the contract year. Some players are extremely valuable. If players with the same salary are traded, the home team will always suffer. Therefore, the rules specified by the league allow the home team to get more. With the possibility of some returns, players will generally agree to renew their contracts and get higher salaries.

  The Cavaliers added millions in salary this season, plus the luxury tax expense…”

  Qing'er's attention was diverted, but she asked: "Our salary expenditure is much higher than that of the Cavaliers, right?"

"Our team makes more money, the city is better, and the ball market is better. In Cleveland, the city environment and the ball market environment are far worse... But they have James, so they must be very profitable. Relying on James to make money, I am reluctant to spend money."

  Anne Hathaway asked: "Like Alexander exploiting the little giant?"

   "Yes, the NBA has a boss who loves basketball like Gilbert, and there are many people like Alexander..."

Liu Xiu successfully changed the subject and discussed the matter of the Cavaliers' Super Five, just like in 2013, the Nets group of "old, weak, sick and disabled" were said to be the Big Five, all of whom are about to retire Pierce, Garnett, Kirilenko, plus Lopez who was reimbursed for the season, and Deron who ruined himself...

   People's attention is on the Cavaliers who get the most stars.

   Liu Xiu's side was the same at the beginning, but later they focused on the other three teams.

  Liu Xiu wondered if Big Z and the Cavaliers would play tricks like they did in the original time and space—first let Big Z go to the Wizards for a physical examination, and then refuse to play for the Wizards after the deal was approved, forcing the Wizards to buy out the contract.

   At that time, the Cavaliers will be the "Super Six".

  The Jazz, trade Szczerbiak back for Larry Hughes, **** contract for **** contract.

  Paul has been injured again and again, Larry Hughes should be better than Szczerbiak, in terms of health, the latter two are similar.

   As for the Pistons, Liu Xiuzhen didn't expect Ben Wallace to be sent away!

   In the second year after winning the championship, Joe Dumars was more ruthless than he thought.

   Also returned Gooden and a first-round pick... Snow, the follow-up news is that the Pistons will directly buy him out without passing the health check.

  …

  The two big deals of the Cavaliers stole the limelight of the "New Year's Eve War" between the Lakers and the Jazz.

  By the time Liu Xiu thought that there was still this game, the game was over.

  Kobe played the Jazz like playing for fun, and Deron also hammered small cannons every day.

   With the help of Deron's 19 points, 3 rebounds and 13 assists, Kobe made 13 of 23 shots, including 2 of 3 three-pointers, and 12 of 14 free throws. He scored 40 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals.

   With David West's 21 points and 10 rebounds, the Lakers beat the Jazz 113-100.

   On the second day, January 1, 2009, the new year has arrived.

  After a day's rest, Liu Xiu went to the team in the morning and participated in a light training session.

  The morning training is over, and the team's training schedule for today is over.

  Noon Alliance announced last month's Best of the Month awards.

  Most rookie of the month, East: Chalmers of the Heat, averaging 12.5 points and 5.5 assists per game; West: Greg Oden of the Grizzlies, averaging 13 points, 8 rebounds and 3.4 blocks per game.

  Best coach of the month, East: Mike Brown of the Cavaliers; West: Byron Scott of the Hornets.

   Player of the Month,

  East: LeBron James of the Cavaliers, 12 wins and 4 losses, averaging 28.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 7.8 assists, 1.7 steals and 1 block per game.

  West: Liu Xiu of the Trail Blazers, 12 wins and 3 losses, averaging 35.2 points, 7.6 rebounds, 8.4 assists, 2.8 steals and 1.4 blocks per game.

   Liu Xiu was very pleasantly surprised when he learned that he won the award. In November, he was looking forward to it. He won 11 consecutive victories at the beginning, but he didn't get it.

  Last month he didn't care about this at all, he didn't expect to win an award!

  In the afternoon, instead of practicing, he went to Anna and Jaylen's school to hold a parent-teacher meeting for the first time in his life, and to hold New Year's activities together.

  This afternoon was the highlight moment of Anna and Jaylen’s kindergarten life. Handwork, hand-cooked cakes, pancakes, cakes, snacks... everything, and a crowd of onlookers and teachers were stunned.

  NBA has rumored that the warden is the best cook in the league, but I didn't expect it to be true!

  Liu Xiu, who loves to show so much, has the opportunity to show decisively...

  After working all afternoon, Liu Xiu brought the two cubs back home in the evening.

  Before Christmas, the holiday started for 8 days, and now the holiday continues on the 15th. Today I go to school, just to do some activities.

  Liu Xiu wanted to complain that it was too formalistic, but she had fun, so she didn't complain.

  The cubs look so happy, so don't spoil their fun.

  After dinner, Liu Xiushou stood in front of the TV, watching the New Year's game between the Cavaliers and the Pistons that he was looking forward to.

  This morning, several players who were traded have passed the physical examination, and each went to the new team.

  The troublemaker Liu went to his agent to inquire about it. Sure enough, after passing the medical examination, Big Z asked for leave and went back to Cleveland on the grounds that he wanted to move.

  The Wizards are now foolishly waiting...

   But the game between the Cavaliers and the Pistons at night was very peaceful.

  Liu Xiu's expectation that she had no malice at all fell through, and she thought there would be some conflict or something.

  Thinking about it, even if Ben Wallace is unwilling and angry, he is still reluctant to part with the Pistons management and his old teammates who just won the championship together.

  Yao Ming has played against James 22 times in his career so far, Yao Ming has won 16 times, and James has won 6 times.

Ushered in Jamison, Szczerbiak, and Ben Wallace. The Cavaliers' offense did not immediately improve immediately. Instead, Gooden, Larry Hughes, and Big Z left. , the defensive end was still affected, and the newcomer couldn't integrate at once...

As for the Pistons, they have been weakening the role of Ben Wallace at critical moments in the past two months, and their transaction is relatively simple. Buying out Snow directly is about the same as Ben Wallace trading for Gooden alone. Deng just came and didn't play a role in strengthening the offensive end, but he did a good job as a substitute catch and shoot, at least not slowing down.

  Although James scored 33 points, 14 rebounds and 6 assists tonight, he only made 13 of 31 shots. The Cavaliers' offense was also defended badly, scoring only 84 points.

For the Pistons, Yao Ming had 18 points, Billups had 19 points and 7 assists, Carter had 15 points, Prince had 14 points, James Jones had 13 points, Mark Hill had 12 points...six players scored in double figures, winning 103 to 84 Victory over the Cavaliers.

  …

   After watching the excitement for two days, on January 2, Liu Xiu also ushered in the first game of the new year, against the Warriors.

  The Trail Blazers made 7 of 21 shots in the first quarter, and Liu Xiu also only made 3 of 8 shots. The team only scored 16 points.

   In terms of defense, although the positional battle was well defended, the bearded man counterattacked a lot. The Warriors scored 25 points in a single quarter!

In the second quarter, Liu Xiu didn't play in the first half of the quarter. He felt that tonight's game was going to be tough. As a result, the extrajudicial lunatic made 4 of 6 shots in the half quarter, including 1 of 3 three-pointers and 2 of 2 free throws. , scored 11 points in just over 6 minutes!

  The extrajudicial lunatics who shouted "I jump up is open" led the team to a half-quarter score of 22 to 11. The Trail Blazers overtook the Warriors 38 to 36 and entered the official timeout period.

   In the second half of the quarter, Liu Xiu took over the offensive banner and led the team to a score of 17 to 13, continuing to maintain suppression.

   39 to 24 in a single quarter, the Trail Blazers overtook the Warriors 55 to 49 by 6 points and entered the intermission.

  The situation turned back, and the Warriors were not allowed to take the initiative back.

   The score was 28 to 21 in the third quarter and 30 to 30 in the final quarter.

In the end, relying on Liu Xiu's 26 points, Randolph's 19 points, Ray Allen's 15 points, Kwame Brown's 10 points and 8 rebounds, and the outlaw's 31 points...5 Trail Blazers scored in double figures , Reversing the Warriors 113 to 100 and winning 6 consecutive victories, the record improved to 27 wins and 5 losses.

  …

  After the 4-game series, the next day, January 3, the Trail Blazers headed to the East to start a 4-game series.

  After arriving at the hotel in Chicago, Liu Xiu used his newly bought smartphone to connect to a hotspot to read the news.

  Last year's first-generation smartphone was really not easy to use, but the second-generation smartphone is a little better.

  After browsing the simple mobile website for a while, he still chose to use a PC.

  Smartphones should wait another two years for more complete functions before using them as the main tool. Right now, they mainly answer the phone and send emails.

  He was interrupted for 10 consecutive games of 30+, which caused a wave of heated discussions.

  The fans of the Trail Blazers are more concerned about the outlaws. Their high school student applied to play as a substitute, let himself go, and brought his functionality to the extreme.

  The hottest news today is the announcement of the penalties for Arenas and Crittenton.

  After the investigation, Fobole handed over the evidence to the local police station, and the two were detained. After paying a high security deposit, the two were released on bail, but the prosecution has formally prosecuted the two.

  Liu Xiu remembered that the final outcome of the two was a fine + community labor. Arenas spent 1 million dollars to hire a lawyer who is not just for nothing, and the lawyer's fee must be more than the fine.

   What matters is the league's punishment.

  The indefinite suspension of the two ended, but all the remaining games of this season were suspended.

  From the initial suspension of the two, to the end of this season, both were suspended for 50 games.

   Crittenton was waived by the Wizards. Next season, he will get all the salary of the last year of his rookie contract. This season, he will have no money to take, and he will not be paid for the suspension.

   But Crittenton is okay, just a rookie contract.

   Arenas lost a lot. His average salary per game this season is 184,000 dollars, and his total loss is about 9.2 million dollars.

   But this is the first year of his 6-year maximum salary contract, and there are still a full $100 million in salary for the next 5 years.

   The one who should be desperate, Liu Xiu thinks it should be the Wizards.

  At night, after the Lakers defeated the Rockets 92-88 at home, their record improved to 27 wins and 7 losses, winning 10 consecutive victories, becoming the second team to win 10 consecutive victories this season!

   This made Liu Xiu call me 豮艸芔茻, which also stimulated the players of the Trail Blazers.

   On the second day, January 4, the Trail Blazers came to the United Center to challenge the Bulls away.

  The hatred of the last home loss and the sense of urgency brought by the Lakers' 10-game winning streak made the Trail Blazers players explode tonight!

   At 8:58 p.m., the game that lasted 2 hours and 28 minutes was over.

   As for the Trail Blazers offense, Liu Xiu made 9 of 14 shots, including 4 of 5 three-pointers, and 11 of 11 free throws. He scored 33 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals and 1 block.

  Hill made 6 of 10 shots, scored 15 points, 6 rebounds and 10 assists.

   Kwame Brown made 5 of 7 shots and 7 of 9 free throws to score 17 points, 13 rebounds, 1 assist and 3 blocks.

  Ray Allen made 3 of 6 shots, including 1 of 1 three-pointers, plus 4 of 4 free throws, scoring 11 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists.

   Randolph had 8 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, Dior had 8 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists, and the Outlaws had 13 points...

  The Trail Blazers team scored 109 points!

  The Blazers also performed very well on the defensive end. The Bulls' most stable player was Garnett. When he needed to score, he made 10 of 20 shots and 2 of 2 free throws to score 22 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks.

But for others, Pierce scored 17 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists on 5 of 12 shots; Hinrich scored 13 points and 10 assists on 5 of 14 shots; To 95 points!

  109 to 95, the Trail Blazers avenged the Bulls and won 7 consecutive victories!

  …

   After avenging the last fight, and accumulating some training materials on retreating and changing direction while marching, Liu Xiu was still humming happily when he was having breakfast the next day.

  He reads the newspaper every day while he eats breakfast, and the headlines in basketball—the longest winning streak.

   It wasn't about the possibility that the Lakers could surpass their 11-game winning streak, a topic that was blown up yesterday.

  The topic of hype today is that they have only won 7 consecutive victories, and they are competing with the Lakers who have won 10 consecutive victories for the longest winning streak.

   Just hard speculation, whether they can win 10 consecutive victories is not a question, and there are still 3 away games.

  Liu Xiu felt that this should be Stern's helpless move.

  The early stage of the season was fine, and the main supporter James can hold his own.

   But in the middle of the season, James was unable to compete with the NFL playoffs.

  James is also very popular, but the honor is not strong enough. There are many fans in the basketball fan group, but he has not reached the level of breaking the circle.

  Kobe broke the circle as early as the OK Dynasty, and his warden also broke the circle by relying on the championship.

  Champion...

   On the 6th, the Blazers came to Philadelphia to beat the 76ers 110-99 at the Wachovia Center.

Liu Xiu scored 31 points, Randolph 17 points, Hill 15 points, Kwame Brown 15 points, 12 people played, 10 people scored, Gasol Jr. who did not score also had 2 points and 4 assists, but Ray- Allen played for two minutes when he stepped on the ball while fighting for the floor ball, fell down and was injured, and left the field without a point. Fortunately, he finally won the game with his strong overall strength.

  The 76ers are also heartbroken this year-Iguodala, who is only 24 years old, seems to have reached the end of his talent.

  As the absolute core of the 76ers, Iguodala, who has unlimited firepower, has averaged 18.9 points per game this season.

  In this game, he scored 12 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists on 5 of 11 shots. He can only be said to be a good defensive point forward.

   This is not a problem of too few shots. Iguodala averages 14 to 15 shots per game, and he still has a shooting rate of about 45%, which is quite stable.

   But after the number of shots exceeds 15, the efficiency plummets.

   To put it simply, Iguodala does not have the ability to guarantee the efficiency of his subordinates.

  And in Liu Xiu's memory, as opponents become more and more familiar with Iguodala, the average score of this FMVP with the most shattered data will become lower and lower.

   On the 7th, the Trail Blazers came to the Army Aviation Center in Rutherford Township, New Jersey to beat the 76ers 105-99 back-to-back.

  Ray Allen sprained his ankle. He became a pure stand-up pitcher tonight, and he almost became a traffic commander on the defensive end.

   But the performance was not bad, 4 of 9 shots, including 3 of 7 three-pointers, plus 2 of 3 free throws, scored 13 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist.

   Randolph scored 29 points, Liu Xiu made 16 of 29 shots, including 5 of 11 three-pointers, plus 6 of 6 free throws, scoring 43 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 steals.

  After defeating the Nets back-to-back, the Trail Blazers' winning streak came to 9 games.

  At the same time, the Lakers defeated the Magic 97-92 away and won 12 consecutive victories, surpassing the 11 consecutive victories set by the Trail Blazers at the beginning of the season!

  …

   When the staff handed the towel to Liu Xiu after the game, they told him that the Lakers had won the Magic.

The Trail Blazers opened the locker room interview tonight. When asked about the Lakers' 12-game winning streak, he replied: "They are playing very well. They are the best team currently. Wouldn't be surprised."

   When asked about competing with the Lakers for the longest winning streak, he replied: "We don't care about the winning streak, and we won't focus on such insignificant things."

   This answer is very unreasonable to the warden, and the reporter couldn't help asking: "Really?"

  Liu Xiu replied without hesitation: "Fake."

  Hearing this answer, the reporter immediately felt relieved.

  The topic is ignited!

  The teammates were booing when they heard this, and the people in the management of the coaching staff didn't think there was anything wrong.

   This is their warden, they are used to it.

  Even if Liu Xiu says now that he wants to win another 70 wins, his teammates will follow him crazy instead of feeling too much pressure.

   Even the vice president can only mutter a few words now, wanting to remind Liu Xiu not to drift, but he is used to it and accepts it in his heart.

  He even felt that what Liu Xiu said might cause some trouble for the Lakers.

  Who wants to lose?

   Judge people by themselves. If they win more than a dozen consecutive victories, and a team with 9 consecutive victories provokes them, they will definitely fight the opponent.

  Of course, most people can’t do the thing of winning 9 consecutive victories and provoking 12 consecutive victories.

   On the second day, the Trail Blazers came to Charlotte. After a night's rest, they came to the Time Warner Center Arena to challenge the Bobcats.

   At 4:40 p.m. on the 9th, Liu Xiu led his teammates into the stadium, and the fans were quite enthusiastic about him.

  The only player on this team that Liu Xiu is familiar with is Matt Carroll, who was the member of the "Rose Bay Seven".

  The rookies of the same class, the Trail Blazers team.

  Carol is a winner in life.

In the peak period of the past two years, he averaged 12 points per game and 9 points per game respectively, and his three-point shooting percentage was over 40%. After finishing the contract, he couldn't find a job, and his total career salary has reached 50 million US dollars.

   That’s right, this guy has just completed the early contract renewal, and the new season withered.

  But it’s really not like taking a long-term contract, not having faith, not pursuing, and making bad money.

   But the Bobcats ushered in a new head coach - Larry - Brown.

  Last year the Pistons relied on defense to win the championship, and Larry Brown became a favorite again.

   Bobcats executive vice president Michael Jordan has no problem re-signing a wing shooter who is averaging 1.8 threes per game and shooting 43.6 percent from beyond the arc, and he has no problem signing Larry Brown.

   But two hypes come together... Carroll is forced to make a **** contract.

   Regarding this situation, Carroll is not in a hurry. It has been less than 6 years since he entered the NBA, and he has already drifted to 4 teams, so it doesn't matter.

Liu Xiu looked at the four-person team of Raja Bell, Gerald Wallace, Marvin Williams, and Okafor on the opposite side, and felt that Jordan did a good job in building the team this time. The Bobcats currently have 14 victories With a record of 19 losses, it has also left the ranks of bad teams.

   At 5 o'clock in the evening, the Trail Blazers' away game against the Bobcats started.

   Trail Blazers starting: Liu Xiu, Novak, Hill, Randolph, Kwame Brown.

   Bobcats starting: Randy - Foye, Raja - Bell, Gerald - Wallace, Marvin - Williams, Okafor.

  Ray Allen was injured tonight, playing against the Nets team that was completely undefended after Richard Jefferson left, the coaching staff let Ray Allen continue to play, and playing the Bobcats will not work.

  Although they haven't played against the Bobcats this season, Larry Brown's team knows what type it is without playing against it.

  Liu Xiu copied Korver's residual blood "turn around killer" and Raja Bell's "fighting".

   "Fighting: After confrontation is applied in the defense, if the opponent creates space by retreating or changing direction, the host's sideways movement or push-up start will not be affected by the previous confrontation, and it will start in the best state."

After the start of the game, the Bobcats started the defensive hand-to-hand combat mode. Ray Allen couldn't fight, which was revealed by the coaching staff during their interview the night before. The Bobcats made targeted defensive preparations based on this, but the Trail Blazers The impact on the offensive end is not great!

  The operation of exchanging reeds for Novak worked!

   Ray Allen was injured, and Novak went straight to the top of the starting lineup from the unactivated list, playing the role of wing and top arc shooter very well.

  The Trail Blazers' tactics were operating normally, and Novak also scored a three-pointer to maintain the offensive threat.

  Under the high-tempo and high-confrontation defense of the Bobcats, the Trail Blazers scored 24 points in the first quarter steadily.

  But the Trail Blazers' defensive end collapsed badly!

  Ray Allen's defense without the ball, and the defense with the ball when necessary, did not hold back, and Novak, both slowed down...The Bobcats scored 25 points in the first quarter!

   In the second quarter, the scores of the two teams continued to be anxious. The two teams tied at 23 to 23. The Bobcats led the Trail Blazers 48 to 47 by 1 point and entered the intermission!

  This situation made the Bobcats players extremely excited and felt like they were going to be upset... Then, they were beaten by the Trail Blazers 29 to 22 in the third quarter...

   Liu Xiu made 8 of 10 shots in the third quarter, including 2 of 2 three-pointers, plus 3 of 3 free throws, 21 points in a single quarter!

  If DJ-Augustin, who came off the bench, made a two-pointer at the buzzer, Liu Xiu would be able to complete the achievements of the opponent's team alone...

  The Lynx team scored 27 to 26 in the final quarter. Unwilling to be overthrown by Liu Xiu alone, they played hard, but they still failed to regain the situation.

He made 19 of 33 shots, including 5 of 10 three-pointers and 10 of 12 free throws. Liu Xiu scored 53 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks. Streak!

  At this time, on the South Coast, a star of a 12-game winning streak team who did not want to be named is facing off with the number one shooting guard in the East, Dwyane Wade.

   Entering the inter-section break, when the head star went to the technical table to polish the chalk, he heard the league officials say that the warden led the team to 10 consecutive victories with 53 points in a single game, and instantly straightened his neck.

  Wade on the side originally wanted to say a few words to the opponent before going on the court, but the opponent played better at the start tonight.

   But I didn't expect to hear the official of the technical station say this!

  Desert from work! This is it!

  Wade looked at the big god's expression that seemed to be biting someone, heard the "hissing" sound, and quickly returned his attention to the game.

   Originally, there was a big gap in team strength, and there was no advantage in personal ability. The opponent's murderous look, if he was not careful, his cheeks would be embarrassed tonight!

  (end of this chapter)